Five Military Jets up High
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Five Military Jets up High
Does anyone have any information on jets that flew in a formation of five at some height over Sussex at 16:40 today? Flying due North and at great speed they each left a double contrail and the sound came much later as rolling thunder. Expect they were from D Day fly pasts or whatever, but it is very unusual to see any formation flying at height in these parts. A lovely sight but intriguing as to type and reason etc.
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Sussex - if my Geography serves me correct (I'm doing it at Uni, but hey we don't look at UK maps!) - its on the south coast, in which case they probably were preparing to fly across the channel for the dignatiries at Armanches. 16.40 sounds about the right time for that.
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No idea on your sighting but just had 4 x USAF Globemasters in (loose) formation heading north over SAM at F120 to Brize. They were definitely coming back from the D-Day celebrations.
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Flying due North
if my Geography serves me correct (I'm doing it at Uni, but hey we don't look at UK maps!) - its on the south coast, in which case they probably were preparing to fly across the channel
Sorry, couldn't resist - tongue in cheek reply, no malice intended.
